Proposed Analytical Products for the Air Force Warfighting Integration Capability: Developing and Presenting Options for Future Force Design and Capability Development
Abstract
Over the past several years, the U.S. Air Force has made a series of organizational changes to strengthen its capacity at the enterprise level to conceptualize and shape future force design and capability development over the longer term. One important step came on October 3, 2017, when the Secretary of the Air Force and the Chief of Staff of the Air Force issued a memorandum announcing the formation of the Air Force Warfighting Integration Capability (AFWIC) to "orchestrate future force design" and "deliver the integration, understanding and consistency required to guide and direct future [Air Force] force transformation" (U.S. Air Force, 2017). In January 2018, the Vice Chief of Staff of the Air Force asked RAND Project AIRFORCE (PAF) to undertake a project to assist AFWIC in developing its approach to future force design (and integration with strategy, planning, programming, budgeting, and execution processes) to ensure its successful implementation. In subsequent discussions, PAF's tasking was refined to focus on the scope and structure of AFWIC's written and other products to support decision making.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Dec 01, 2020
- Accession Number
- AD1118114
Entities
People
- Colby P. Steiner
- David E. Thaler
- Debra Knopman
- Don A. Snyder
- Elaine Simmons
- Irv Blickstein
- James A. Leftwich
- Krista R. Grocholski
- Quentin E. Hodgson
- Yvonne K. Crane
Organizations
- RAND Corporation